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Post-delivery care is one of the hallmarks of child- and mother-friendly hospitals like the General Camilo Cienfuegos Provincial Hospital in Sancti Spíritus, Cuba.

Unlike medical teams from other countries working in Haiti since the earthquake, Cuban doctors – already 500 strong in Haiti when the quake hit – are winning high praise from the people for doing everything possible to avoid amputations.

Cuba's solidarity with the Latin American and Caribbean peoples in the preparation of physicians, was highlighted this Friday in Havana.

Among the many donor nations helping Haiti, Cuba and its medical teams have played a major role in treating earthquake victims.

Experts from the National Scientific Research Center (CENIC) have developed a product from the royal palm to treat the benign prostatic hyperplasia or hypertrophy, said CENIC Director, Doctor Carlos Gutiérrez.

Cuban Vice President Esteban Lazo’s visit to Haiti continues this Tuesday with the purpose of evaluating with local authorities a proposal by the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of the Americas (ALBA) regional integration and cooperation bloc to support the implementation of a new public health system in this country.

While international aid continues to pour into earthquake-ravaged Haiti, improved relations between U.S. and Cuba could turn out to be an unintended - if welcome - result of both countries cooperating to save lives in the devastated island nation.

A testimony from the devastated Haitian capital. Corpses on the streets, desperation, chaos and pain.

In Latin America, Cuba stands out as one of the most effective deployers of soft power. Rather than exporting revolution, Cuba today exports doctors -- with more than 30,000 Cuban doctors working in more than 100 underdeveloped countries around the world.

The painter Crispín Sarrá has taken to the canvas the curative properties of the Bach Flowers, applied to children, whether in illness or accidents, from the flower therapy used by his wife, doctor Lídice Verdecia, specialist in this field of natural medicine.

Natural and Traditional Medicine in Cuba helps to reduce the percentage of sick and the level of deaths caused by the toxicity of pharmaceutical medications.

It is the CimaVax EGF vaccine being produced at the Cuban Center of Molecular Immunology since the early 1990s.

A delegation from Canary Islands’ autonomic government paid a recent visit to Sancti Spiritus’s Natural and Traditional Medicine Laboratory.

In recognition of the importance of research for human health, Cuba has been working hard to improve its capacity to face infectious diseases.